You don’t need a big backyard garden to grow food. In fact, you don’t need a backyard at all! In this video, I share 5 vegetables that grow better in pots than in ground. These veggies are perfect to grow on a patio garden or as balcony vegetables in an urban garden, but even if you have a huge backyard garden, consider growing these vegetables in pots. Plant these veggies for the container garden of your dreams!
How To Grow Potatoes: https://youtu.be/p13FS2LXmC8?si=QgF6Z15siaWZ6TBp
How To Grow Sweet Potatoes: https://youtu.be/4sd7rAnA_eg?si=R3mGsRBrKJQSvXKA
How To Overwinter Pepper Plants: https://youtu.be/G9sYgmHy5sU?si=lOml6x9wOH6qwCpC
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Gardening In Pots, Small Space Gardening!
0:38 Container Vegetable #1: Potatoes
4:28 Container Vegetable #2: Sweet Potatoes
8:20 Container Vegetable #3: Carrots
12:33 Container Vegetable #4: Peppers
16:13 Container Vegetable #5: Lettuce
20:50 No Backyard Gardening Tips!
22:19 Adventures With Dale
If you have any questions about how to garden in containers, want to learn more about growing fruit trees or the things I grow in my raised bed vegetable garden and edible landscaping food forest, are looking for more gardening tips and tricks and garden hacks, have questions about vegetable gardening and organic gardening in general, or want to share some DIY and “how to” garden tips and gardening hacks of your own, please ask in the Comments below!
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Have you grown sweet potatoes in pots? How did they perform? Let us know in the comments! TIMESTAMPS here:
0:00 Gardening In Pots, Small Space Gardening!
0:38 Container Vegetable #1: Potatoes
4:28 Container Vegetable #2: Sweet Potatoes
8:20 Container Vegetable #3: Carrots
12:33 Container Vegetable #4: Peppers
16:13 Container Vegetable #5: Lettuce
20:50 No Backyard Gardening Tips!
22:19 Adventures With Dale
You made a 6 inch funny!
I've seen where people have grown potatoes in a stack of tires filled with soil. When you harvest, you just unstack the tires and pull out the potatoes.
Another thing I've learned about potatoes is that if you don't wash them before storing them, they last longer.
Please pick a few plants and give an EXACT description of soil mix, fertilizer, planting conditions , grow lights etc. I am a VERY in-experienced gardener and know people in the brain injury community. A lot of them WANT to frow food plants, but inexperience and lack of confidence leads to "analysis paralysis" and no plants being grown. A really detailed breakdown of specific plants and conditions would help.
I always accidentally grow potatoes in my compost pile🤣
Thank you. Now I know why my garden failed. Will try again.
You’re my fav. I forward your content to my mom who will not listen to me.
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My great problem ever is soil composition. 😞
Have had problems with root knot nematodes. Might be good idea to switch to more containers.
i love growing in fabric pots! Dale is such a good boy-kisses!
You are a great teacher.
I've been growing in pots for years. Last season was an all-time low, hopefully I'll try some of these ideas this year
Grubbing new potatoes early in the season for a nice meal of creamed fresh peas and new potatoes. I always looked forward to that early Summer meal when I would visit my G-ma.
Thank for this video. I’ve been thinking about growing vegetables in my tiny almost non existent Philly yard. Never grew any vegetables and want to start. Watched my grandparents do it but never tried it myself. So as soon as you said you used to live in Philadelphia it inspired me. Thanks!
What do you think about microgreens and their nutritional value and how to grow them? I would like to start a garden but all I have is a one-bedroom apartment with a barely accessible patio on the ground floor
A 25 gallon grow bag is 5 times the weight of a 5 gallon bucket. Dear, I don't have your muscles. I just moved several 5 gallon buckets with peppers back into my tent to protect them from tonight's freeze.
This year I grew celery from seed in gallon containers. I put them in a collapsible wagon. Tonight they are in my living room because it will get cold. This summer I kept them on the porch where they only got early sun. I have grown tomatoes in 5 gallon buckets. One year I ate fresh tomatoes Christmas day.
What about eggplants? Since I can't can them, I only need a few plants.
I'm tempted to grow peanuts in a container just to protect them from whatever ate ALL of them last year.
Fantastic! As someone who’s trying to start a garden on… well, it’s rocks under my lawn… I appreciate this so much.
If I hadn’t already subscribed before the carrot joke, that would have for me 😂
Great video ❤
QUESTION: If you haven't already, would you show how to prune pepper plants in the fall/winter?
I'd really love to grow my own potatoes, but it just feels so pointless when your grandpa is a commercial potato grower 😂
Is it too late to grow garlic in Zone 6 . Or can it still be done in Jan for a July harvest?
I completely got myself in a rut by postponing the early Fall planting ! Help!!
TMG, re carrots & growing them in containers…. I grow "fingerling" carrots in containers & they're turning out really good. 1/13/26
TMG, re peppers…. (Green peppers???) For some reason, I'm having no luck growing green peppers from seed or store bought plant in pots.
This is professional-level teaching!
I just go to the farmers market to buy my vegetables and potatoes. I tried growing vegetables but to much trouble for me trying to take care of it watering and fertilizing plus fighting bugs and disease's. My dad had the most beautiful vegetables and grew peanuts. He loved working in his garden.
U can eat the leaves make a salad
* potatoes, easier to harvest. Can isolate to prevent spread nightshade disease spread. Alternate crop with used soil
* sweet potatoes~tropical needs long summer. Invasive over time leftover root matter will sprout. Likes junky, low organic soil.
* carrots~straight smooth carrots. Loomy loose soil 12~13 inches Grow carrots in late fall into winter sweeter harvest.
* peppers~perennial crop can be over wintered in sunroom. For several years (Treat like a fruit tree) 5~7 gallon grow bag rec
* lettuce~romaine particularly sensitive to temps (narrows growing time playing with micro~climates) 20 gallon grow bag
you seem cool, I like your videos, but I'm in the tropics.
Do you also own or license to an account under the name BACKYARD CROPS? If not, it appears they have stolen your content and reproduced it.
I use cardboard boxes sometimes when I'm growing potatoes. See, I plant potatoes when a store potato sprouts on me, so I don't always have a pot available. I tried using a cardboard box once and loved it– the box doesn't last, but it lasts just the right amount of time. When the potato dies back, the bottom of the box has weakened, so you can lift the box away and sift through the soil, get the potatoes, and them scoop the soil into another container.
What soil do you use in your bags for good drainage? Do you have a video about the dirt for bags? Thank you for your channel!
I need help with “things” in the soil. More likely earwigs.. help!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Do you use water jugs to help ward off frost in shelter spots?
I dump my potato bags out in an old kiddie pool
I should try some sweet potatoes in containers.. i love those.. but basically its impossible to get any yeild here because our summers are just too cold 🥶 but the containers could be a solution 👍
six inch carrot LOL 🤣
This may seem like a stupid question, but are your raised beds open at the bottom? any screen or mesh? or are they just placed on top of the weed barrier? Thanks so much from Supply, NC!
Here in the United States we keep our peppers in their pots on the lanai all year long.
Not all fifty states are snow country.
It's a challenge to grow sweet potatoes in zone 7a. On the upside, they don't become invasive here.
12:00 😅😅😅
You sir, are amazing. You've done the hard work for us by figuring out what works so we don't have to. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Now I'm going out to work in my winter garden. Sunshine and smiles to you and yours.